homonym

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English

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Etymology

homo- + -onym

Noun

homonym (plural homonyms)

1. (semantics, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
2. (loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
3. (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

Usage notes

• Homonyms (in the looser sense) are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples:
  • die and dye (homophones but not homographs)
  • the parasitic flatworm called a fluke and fluke, part of the tail of a whale (both homophones and homographs and therefore true homonyms in the strict sense)
  • the metal lead and the present tense of the verb lead (homographs but not homophones)

Related terms

• homonymic
• homonymous

Translations

word with the same sound or spelling but different meaning

• Armenian: համանուն (hy) (hamanun) 
• Catalan: homònim m and n
• Chinese: trad. 同音異義詞, simpl. 同音异义词 (pinyin: tóngyīn yìyì), trad. 同音詞, simpl. 同音词 (pinyin: tóngyīncí)
• Czech: homonymum (cs) n
• Dutch: homoniem (nl) n
• Esperanto: homonimo (eo)
• Finnish: homonymia (fi)
• French: homonyme (fr) m and n
• German: Homonym (de) n
• Greek: ομώνυμο (el) n (omónymo)
• Ido: homonimo (io)

• Japanese: 同音異義語 (ja) (dōon igigo), 同音語 (ja) (dōongo)
• Khmer: កល្បពាក្យ (km)
• Korean: 동음 이의어 (同音異義語, dong-um ei-uei-eo)
• Manx: co-ennym (gv) m
• Polish: homonim (pl) m
• Romanian: omonim (ro) m
• Russian: омоним (ru) (omónim) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: homonim (sh) m
• Spanish: homónimo (es) m and n
• Swedish: homonym (sv) c
• Turkish: homonim (tr), sesteş (tr)

See also

An Euler diagram showing the relationship between these -nyms.

Different Meanings

Nym	Sound	Spelling	Category
homonym	same	same
heteronym	different	same	(cat)
homograph	not specified	same
homophone	same	different	(cat)
heterophone	different	different
synonym	different	different

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Swedish

Noun

homonym c

1. homonym

Declension

Declension of homonym

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	homonym	homonymen	homonymer	homonymerna
genitive	homonyms	homonymens	homonymers	homonymernas